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The Patriot (Special Edition)
from Sony Pictures
starring Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs, Chris Cooper
directed by Roland Emmerich

Features:

• Anamorphic
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Childish
  "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." -Samuel Johnson
  "Democracy is messy." -Donald Rumsfeld
  This movie is childish. I don't mean it's a children's movie. I mean it is conceived at the mental and emotional level of a twelve-year-old boy and meant to be enjoyed by adults. That doesn't bother me. Almost all blockbusters are.
  What bothers me is how Emmerich, Gibson & co. presume to use one of the most important events in the history of mankind to enact the same cliche-filled... more info

• The Patriot...
  ...Wherein a German filmmaker by the name of Roland Emerich makes a movie where evil British Redcoats commit a vile atrocity against American freedom fighters... an atrocity that in reality was perpetrated by German troops against French villagers in WWII. Nice one Roland. What are you going to do next - make a film where the British gas 12 million people in Auschwitz before the plucky German freedom fighters come to the rescue?

• Thank You Mel Gibson
  Amidst the steady stream of disgusting, vulgar, and /or western civilization-bashing crap that flows like a sewer from our Left Coast, we get a little reminder every once in awhile that the United States is not completely the Great Satan. We do have a redeeming quality or two. Thank God for a generation that didn't bow the knee to British oppression and tyranny. (Anyone who thinks the British were righteous during that period probably also thinks that Islam is a religion of peace.) Today we are the world's... more info

• Could it be time for another revolution
  Excellent movie and acting, Story superb if you can overlook hollywood political correctness recreating history

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